HOW ERRORS MADE in ENGLISH SPEAKING: a STUDY in SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in MAKASSAR
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Jurnal Ilmiah Edukasi & Sosial, Volume 11, Nomor 2, September 2020, hlm. 127–131 HOW ERRORS MADE IN ENGLISH SPEAKING: A STUDY IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in MAKASSAR Muh. Arief Muhsin English Education Departement, Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar [email protected] Abstract: Speaking in English skill is a sign of language proficiency. The fluency in English conversation is a target of language teaching. However, errors in pronunciation when speaking is a phenomenon which must reveal. The study did observe the student’s errors in practising English conversation. The object of research was a private school in Makassar city. The result showed errors generally happen in pronunciation while students were practising the speaking class. It is proved that teaching pronunciation is an important aspect of language learning for EFL students. The study will become a reason to introduce pronunciation practice in senior high school in Indonesia. The study also contributed to support English practising in daily life. It needs to continue this study for the next researcher reveals the difficulty faced by EFL students. Keywords: Error, speaking skill, conversation. Speaking is a real language in communication, errors naturally made as a foreign language. and it needs interaction between one to other in Safrida, S., & Kasim, U. (2016) focused their delivering information. The skill of study on grammatical errors when speaking communication is the goal of teaching English, English. They found the students still have a how students can practice this skill. There are serious problem in term of grammatical aspect, some school that is successful in realizing especially the omission of noun inflexions and English learning only on the knowledge of irregular past tenses (Sundqvist, P., 2009). grammar and vocabulary (Kobayashi, Y., 2002). Ngangbam, H. (2016) concentrated his study in The students cannot speak English well because writing errors and found the indication of they do not use English in their daily life. The performance problems committed in this study fact shows that the students cannot speak in was due to mother tongue interference, misuse English though they have learned it for four sentence fragment, overuse, lack of grammatical years (Kirkgöz, Y., 2005). Consequently, the knowledge, formation and developmental errors. teachers may have to conduct some techniques Simbolon, M. (2015) studied the grammatical of learning speaking to encourage the students to errors in speaking activities; he found the errors practice this skill. But the students are not almost made by students were in 6 aspects; errors in the perfectly when they speak. They must make production of verb groups, errors in the something wrong or make a mistake. This distribution of verb groups, errors in the use of mistake is usually called error (Khan, H. R., & the article, errors in the use of preposition, errors Akter, M., 2011). Failure is a void in the in the use of questions and miscellaneous errors. understanding of the learner; because the learner Even though many researchers have done did not know what was correct. Sometimes the the study in speaking English error but this study student made a mistake, but they still ignore it. focused on a private school in Makassar. The They have a disagreement about the use of some private school is dominated by low economic form of expression. There, the teacher needs to income students. It is very interesting to observe identify what the students have made a mistake, their activity in the English classroom. Error in and the teacher can also figure out why the English is naturally made by EFL students but students make a mistake. The approach used to reveal their problems in speaking will help them determine the fault is called error analysis. to minimize their errors. The error could be a There are many researchers did study in mistake made in writing or otherwise, a speaking English, especially in errors analysis. wandering or deviation from the truth (Bates, D. Rashid, B. T. (2015) studied errors in Kurdish W., 2002). In other words, we will say that EFL undergraduate students; he concluded the errors are something that can’t be received from learner need to expose their target language and the quality which has been determined. Errors Muhsin, How Errors Made In English Speaking: ...128131 could be a mistake that person can’t correct it by B : Wow, it’s great seeing you, how long themselves (Myhill, D., & Jones, S., 2007); it has it been? It must be more than six needs evidence about it. It implies that if the months. I’m doing good. How about scholars make a miscalculation, they will not you? correct their error by themselves, they have A : Not too bad. another to correct their error. B : What movie are you and the family Gerhart, B., Wright, P. M., Mc Mahan, G. going to see? C., & Snell, S. A. (2000) stated that there are A : I came here to see the Simpsons movie. two distinctions between error, they are the error How about you? of competence and error of performance. He B : I’m going to watch Terminator 4. noted that error of competence is the result of the application of rules by the second language Based on first student’s, it shown there were learner which do not (yet) correspond to the errors in the conversation between sample 05 second language. On the other hand, he stated and sample 06, while the error found was found that error of performance is the result of a in both samples, in sample 5, which is great, mistake in language use and manifest themselves movie and error in sample 6, which is great. The as repeats, false starts, correction or a slip of the finding of the wrong pronunciation in sample 5 tongue. In conclusion, second language learner is in the great word which the correct can realize their error of performance, and they pronunciation is (arejt), and the students say the can correct the error but not in the error of word great by saying (great), as well as the word competence. movie, where sample 5 is saying (mouvi) which should be (ÈmuÐ.vi). While sample 6 found a METHOD pronunciation error on the word great, where The study focused on investigating the sample 6 say (gret) that should be spoken is students’ errors in speaking English, especially (arejt). in a private school which have low economic income students. There were four students as the Student conversation 2: subject of the study in qualitative approach design. The data in these studies are all the A : Hello, Jason, how are you, it’s been a problems that affect students in speaking English long time since we last met? are directly related to the accent and culture B : Oh, hi Sarah I’m have got a new job now around their place, which changes when they and is going great. How about you? talk every day. The data was taken in speaking A : Not too bad. activity while students were learning English in B : How often do you eat at this cafe? the classroom. It recorded when students were A : This is my first time my friends kept speaking in pairs. The data recorded were telling me the food was great, so tonight analyzed to find some errors made by the I decided to try it. What have you been students. The data categorize based on their up to? errors in speaking transcript conversation. the B : I have been so busy with my new job researcher formulates propositions related to the that I have not had the time to do much principle of logic, raises them as research else, but otherwise, I and the family are findings, then continues to review repeatedly the all fine. existing data, grouping the data that has been A : Well, I hope you and your family have a formed, and propositions that have been lovely meal. formulated B : Yes, you too. FINDING AND DISCUSSION In conversation 2, there were some words Finding written in bold style. The words were mistaken There are four conversations analyzed in sound in pronunciation while speaking. The this study. The conversations showed in the results of the conversation above that found tables: some errors in sample 7. As for the error that surrounds the word long, try meal. From the Student conversation 1: results of the study, it was found several pronunciation errors in the words spoken by A : Hi, Jason, it’s great to see you again. Jurnal Ilmiah Edukasi & Sosial, Volume 11, Nomor 2, September 2020, hlm. 127–131 sample 7, namely, the terms long, try, meal, months. I’m doing good. How about which are the correct pronunciation of the three you? words are (lRK), (traj), (mjYl). While the wrong A : Not too bad. pronunciation of words by sample 7 is (long), B : What movie are you and the family (tray), (miil). going to see? A : I came here to see the Simpsons movie. Student conversation 3: How about you? B : I’m going to watch Terminator 4. A : Hello, my name is David. It’s nice to meet you. Based on student 4, it has shown there B : Hi, I’m Jenny. It’s my please to meet were errors in the conversation between you. sample 11 and sample 12, while the error A : Am sorry. what was your name again? found was found in both samples, in sample B : Jenny. 11, which is great, came, movie and error in A : So, Jenny, what do you do for a living? B : I work at the local school teaching sample 12, which is great. Some English. What do you for a living? pronunciation errors in sample 11 are in A : I’m also an English teacher, but am words great, came, movie where sample 11 currently out of work.